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Role overview
Canonical is hiring an Organisational Development Associate to work remotely across the Americas and EMEA regions. This role suits early-career individuals interested in organisational development and leadership coaching. The position involves working closely with teams to improve management practices and team effectiveness.
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What you will do
- Embed within a team to observe daily operations and identify issues.
- Conduct diagnostics on team health and management effectiveness using engagement surveys and feedback.
- Design and implement improvements to team processes with senior practitioner support.
- Assist managers in delivering 360-degree performance feedback and help individuals set actionable commitments.
- Contribute to building the function's playbook, including standards and tools.
- Learn coaching and organisational development skills from senior practitioners.
Requirements
- Up to two years of experience since graduating.
- Strong leadership and organisational skills demonstrated early in career.
- A deliberate interest in organisational development, industrial psychology, behavioural science, or a related field.
- Exceptional academic record from high school and university.
- Business-level proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Confidence and presence to engage with experienced professionals about change.
- Organised, accurate, authentic, results-oriented, and enthusiastic.
- Personal motivation aligned with the company's mission.
- Willingness to travel up to four times a year for internal events.
- Preferred: Exposure to people, organisational, coaching, or consulting work through study, internship, or job.
- Preferred: Genuine interest in management and organisational craft.
- Preferred: Comfort working with data.
Benefits
The company offers compensation based on location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and a performance-driven bonus. Benefits include a distributed work environment with biannual in-person team meetings, a personal learning budget of USD 2,000 per year, holiday leave, parental leave, an Employee Assistance Programme, travel opportunities, Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for company events.
How to apply
Apply through the employer's official contact. The employer has not published a closing date.